It was very exciting to learn that my favorite author of all time, Haruki Murakami, is also a lifelong runner! As I start to run more and more, it's been amazing to read other people's accounting of what seems to be universal love/hate/spiritual relationship with that activity. In thie book Murakami uses his running habit to illustrate how he learned to be a great runner and age gracefully. The fact that his work amazes me every time and is always an English translation of Japanese is bindblowing! I now am determined to track down the 2005 Runner's World magazine that featured Murakami in an article about the "running novelist."